Weeds Quotes

She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet. — Jodi Picoult

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds? — Bill Vaughan

Fear waters the weeds of regret. — Steve Maraboli

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory
the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name. — Laura Miller

I loved you too much to lose you twice. — Laura Miller

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets. — Laura Miller

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. — Steve Maraboli

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I laugh when I think of how many hours I have spent in my life weaving storylines that never came true until, like weeds, they covered my heart. — Mark Nepo

Your life is your garden
and your thoughts are your seeds,
so if your life isn't awesome
you've been watering the weeds. — Terry Prince

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — John Burroughs

Sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot;
There flowers or weeds at will may
grow, So I behold them not — George Gordon Byron

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear. — Sherry Thomas

Prayer makes tremendous power available (James 5:16). Don't let your prayer life reflect weeds of inconsistency or neglect. — Joyce Meyer

Bad weeds grow in bunches. — Roberto Ricci

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace. — William Shakespeare

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. — Ron Chernow

I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules. — Laura Miller

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. — Robertson Davies

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined. — Sadao Araki

See, I'm in love with the person you can never outrun. I'm in love with you. — Laura Miller

When life is not coming up roses
Look to the weeds
and find the beauty hidden within them. — L.F.Young

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers. — John Keats

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. — William Shakespeare

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick. — Cormac McCarthy

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens. — Tom Hodgkinson

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds — Tom Waits

Self-doubts are like weeds; if you don't deal with them right away, they multiply. And before you know it, your garden looks like a jungle in Vietnam. — Emma Chase

life is like weeds — Milan Kundera

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides. — Nina Fedoroff

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind, — William Zinsser

How about, 'I just kissed a guy at Black Weeds because you've been ignoring me. P.S. I love you. — Jeri Smith-Ready

A good garden may have some weeds. — Thomas Fuller

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. — Henry Ward Beecher

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau

Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds. — Sanchita Pandey

Your mind is like a garden. You can ignore kit and let weeds grow, or you can olabt a healthy garden and perhaps a fl,ower or two. — Sherman L. Smith

She loved everything that grew on God's earth, even weeds. — Harper Lee

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future. — Clyde Heath

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back. — Laura Miller

Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place. — Jonathan Kellerman

Tears water our eyes.

"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath. — Kathryn Harrison

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. — Andy Couturier

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce. — Douglas Wilson

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds. — Lesley Kagen

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. — Santoka Taneda

Mala hierba nunca muere. (Translations: Weeds never die. Bad grass never dies.) — Anonymous

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little. — Michael Dolan

This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life! — Seth Adam Smith

A racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds. — Tony Crunk

You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?. — Pat McBride

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good. — Merle Haggard

Don't let weeds grow around your dreams. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. — Honore De Balzac

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us. — F.T. McKinstry

In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. — A.A. Milne

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence. — Bruce Lee

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. — Plutarch

The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying. — David Levithan

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. — John Vance Cheney

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. — Martha Smith

I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds. — Charles Haddon

Where weeds are sown, weeds grow. — Jeff Wheeler

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. — Rumi

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God. — Frank Lebby Stanton

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part. — Stuart Woods

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. — Aubrey De Vere

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them. — Andy Andrews

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers. — Kelly Clarkson

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. — Sylvia Browne

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Don't count him out, Julia. He hasn't given up on you. — Laura Miller

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Your tears only water your weeds — Red

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91) — Prem Prakash

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust
almost anything, — Henry Ford

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds! — Charles M. Schulz

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. — Edwin Paxton Hood

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop. — Richard Mabey

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. — Jerome K. Jerome

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last. — Robert Pyle

False friends, like weeds, try very hard to appear genuine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved. — Jack Harlan

Weeds don't become roses because they grow in the same soil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it. — Israelmore Ayivor

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Laura Miller

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch. — David Gemmell

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds. — Josh Radnor